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user1716672
user1716672

Reputation: 1073

Phonegap app - alternatives to Pusher and PubNub

I'm building a phonegap app and one aspect of the app involves chat rooms and allowing users to broadcast 160 character long messages to all other users within the chat rooms. I dont mind if these messages are broadcast to all users immediately or require each user to do a "pull-to-refresh" before seeing any new messages.

One major issue is that my app is sports event based and requests will go from almost none during midweek to thousands during a football game. I have looked at Pusher and PubNub and their services seem very expensive and unsuited as they look at peak connections. Pubnub, which I have currently implemented, charge $49 for just 500 peak connections. I expect many more than that during a football game, but very few 95% of the time.

What are the alternatives for me? Keep in mind I don't want to spend months coding a service myself as this isn't the core of the app. I would like to use an open source solution or something cheaper and more suited to my needs than Pusher or PubNub

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1695

Answers (2)

Craig Conover
Craig Conover

Reputation: 4738

To address the cost in your question - PubNub has new pricing plans with up to 100 daily active devices on the FREE tier and Access Manager is FREE for all accounts.

Upvotes: 0

user3521573
user3521573

Reputation: 21

My answer is a bit late, but you can check http://beebotte.com for your need. Beebotte does not apply connection limitations.

This tutorial for realtime chat application may be useful: http://beebotte.com/tutorials/chat

Upvotes: 1

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